These remarkable desert animals can take extreme body temperature ... Peccaries are native to North and South America, ...

Bastetodon was classified as a species of the extinct group of carnivorous mammals called hyenodonts, which evolved long ...

The jumping jerboa is also found in other regions, including Central Asia, North Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula, as well ...

As you can see from the climate graph, plants and animals in the desert have to cope with very little water. The climate is very hot. Summer day time temperatures can exceed 40°C. However ...

Dietary adaptations: Many desert animals get most of their water from the food they eat, requiring them to drink very little water ...

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants ... actually live in desert regions. Deserts cover more than one-fifth of the ...

Human activities such as firewood gathering and the grazing of animals are also converting semiarid regions into deserts ... number of wildfires that alter desert landscapes by eliminating ...